ALSA supports LADSPA plugins. Example compressor/limiter setup here:
http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Ladspa_(plugin)
I use this for watching movies at night without disturbing neighbors, works very well.
Beta blockers will stop the shaking and sweating without any mental impairment. Here in the UK doctors are generally happy to prescribe them for this situation. Pretty much zero abuse potential so I'd imagine it's similar in most countries.
Gentoo's USE flags are designed to solve exactly this problem. You'll only get the obscure optional dependencies if you explicitly request them. USE flags are the real reason Gentoo is a great OS, beyond the minor speed boost from compiling for your specific hardware.
It's worth cutting the production of new entertainment to 1/100th or even 1/1000th of what it is now because eliminating copyright would create an unimaginably huge quantity of wealth. I'm not sure how to calculate the total value of all works currently restricted by copyright, but it must be at least 1 billion USD. Multiply by 7 billion world population, and you get a number that doesn't fit the human imagination. Admittedly not all humans would have access to this at first, but it would create an extremely strong incentive for improved access to computer hardware and communication, so the number would rise rapidly. That you would deny this potential utopia just to get more new games indicates that you are evil, or at the very least stupid.
More importantly, there is no ultimate global P2P network, sharing the sum of all human art and knowledge. This is technically but not legally possible, and the lack of such a valuable thing is the real cost of copyright.
The existing games aren't going to suddenly vanish. Have you really played every good game in existence, read every good novel, watched every good movie, listened to every good album? Also, without copyright, costs to produce games and movies will be dramatically decreased, as duplication of effort simply to bypass monopolies will become pointless.
Free Software will be produced even without copyright law. So will music, novels, and games. Maybe not at the same rate it is now, but that's a small price to pay for every human having complete access to every existing game/movie/music recording/novel/textbook/scientific paper/etc. With the rapidly decreasing price of computer hardware and improving communication infrastructure I do mean *every* human. Poverty can be eliminated, and without intellectual monopoly everyone can have unimaginable intellectual wealth. Imagine a global filesharing network that gives everyone access to knowledge far exceeding their own personal Library of Congress. Everyone with access to a good private torrent tracker has already had a taste of how good it could be.
There's already enough good entertainment out there to last your entire expected lifetime, and useful software and research will continue to be produced because of the productivity benefits. Complaining about slightly reduced production is distracting from the real issue of just how enormous the cost of all this artificial scarcity is.
Coal and nuclear are the only feasible options to meet current energy needs. Coal burning is already an environmental disaster, and produces more radioactive waste than nuclear. Even if we disregard the possibility of CO2 induced climate change coal is still totally unacceptable. Nuclear is the only sensible option.
If the developers are less productive using the commercial IDE it's best value for money to leave it unused. It's a sunk cost, they wasted the money as soon as they bought it.
Stealing: I take the CD, the owner no longer has the CD. Copying: I copy the data, now we both have the data.
Copying != theft. Copyright as originally intended "to promote the progress of science and useful arts" is arguably beneficial to society, but copyright as currently implemented mostly benefits the rich elite. With lower barriers to entry for both authorship and distribution the optimal copyright term is now shorter than the original term, but it has instead been increased to be effectively endless. It is no surprise people do not respect such an obviously broken law.
Then increase the text size. Higher resolution is always better, even on a small screen. With higher DPI we can abandon ugly hacks such as font hinting. I want a monitor with the resolution of paper. The poor interface scaling of Windows XP is holding back the market for high resolution monitors, but other OSs don't have this problem.
The only possible reason you could want more relevant spam is because you might buy spammed products. This encourages spammers and makes the internet a worse place for everybody.
The receptor spectral overlap is one reason why the ultimate visual interface can only be direct neural connection. Anyone who's tried psychedelic drugs will have seen colors that don't exist in reality, generated directly in the brain bypassing the eyes. I also suspect the human brain will adapt well to at least five channels of color, given the existence of tetrachromat humans, and even higher dimension color space perceiving animals. Humans only see a tiny portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, but most never consider it might be possible to improve this. I want my cybereyes.
:cycle of reincarnation:/n./ [coined in a paper by T. H. Myer
and I.E. Sutherland "On the Design of Display Processors", Comm.
ACM, Vol. 11, no. 6, June 1968)] Term used to refer to a well-known
effect whereby function in a computing system family is migrated
out to special-purpose peripheral hardware for speed, then the
peripheral evolves toward more computing power as it does its job,
then somebody notices that it is inefficient to support two
asymmetrical processors in the architecture and folds the function
back into the main CPU, at which point the cycle begins again.
Several iterations of this cycle have been observed in
graphics-processor design, and at least one or two in
communications and floating-point processors. Also known as `the
Wheel of Life', `the Wheel of Samsara', and other variations of
the basic Hindu/Buddhist theological idea. See also {blitter},
{bit bang}.
Just because 3d is often used as a gimmick doesn't mean it always has to be that way. It's perfectly acceptable to compose the scenes as though it were a normal movie, without all that objects flying into your face nonsense. The 3d effect will still work, and as it becomes more common people will expect a more subtle treatment. Color was a gimmick once, but now we don't expect every movie to be as colorful as The Wizard of Oz.
I can think faster than I can speak unambiguous commands. Using a combination of keyboard shortcuts, extended mouse buttons and mouse gestures I can browse fast enough that the bottleneck is almost always reading comprehension. This is also much less tiring than speaking. A better solution might be a combination of eye tracking and brainwave monitoring, but that's still far too unreliable.
With today's greatly improved distribution methods, the optimal length of copyright is much less than the original 14/14. Something like 5/5 seems reasonable, with the first 5 years free and a high cost for the extension.
The more ridiculous the so called "intellectual property" laws become, the faster the remaining traces of respect the average person has for them will erode. While there's a valid argument for a short copyright term being beneficial to society, 95 years will only encourage people to ignore the law altogether.
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Or alternatively, strong evidence for abiogenic petroleum origin.
ALSA supports LADSPA plugins. Example compressor/limiter setup here: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Ladspa_(plugin) I use this for watching movies at night without disturbing neighbors, works very well.
Beta blockers will stop the shaking and sweating without any mental impairment. Here in the UK doctors are generally happy to prescribe them for this situation. Pretty much zero abuse potential so I'd imagine it's similar in most countries.
Gentoo's USE flags are designed to solve exactly this problem. You'll only get the obscure optional dependencies if you explicitly request them. USE flags are the real reason Gentoo is a great OS, beyond the minor speed boost from compiling for your specific hardware.
Coffee is supposed to be brewed at 95C, and served immediately. If anything the coffee was too cold.
1. Use NoScript
2. Disable autoplay
3. Run anything you don't 100% trust in a VM without network access
Software is only a small minority of copyright restricted content, and Free Software's only significant weakness is games.
It's worth cutting the production of new entertainment to 1/100th or even 1/1000th of what it is now because eliminating copyright would create an unimaginably huge quantity of wealth. I'm not sure how to calculate the total value of all works currently restricted by copyright, but it must be at least 1 billion USD. Multiply by 7 billion world population, and you get a number that doesn't fit the human imagination. Admittedly not all humans would have access to this at first, but it would create an extremely strong incentive for improved access to computer hardware and communication, so the number would rise rapidly. That you would deny this potential utopia just to get more new games indicates that you are evil, or at the very least stupid.
More importantly, there is no ultimate global P2P network, sharing the sum of all human art and knowledge. This is technically but not legally possible, and the lack of such a valuable thing is the real cost of copyright.
The existing games aren't going to suddenly vanish. Have you really played every good game in existence, read every good novel, watched every good movie, listened to every good album? Also, without copyright, costs to produce games and movies will be dramatically decreased, as duplication of effort simply to bypass monopolies will become pointless.
Free Software will be produced even without copyright law. So will music, novels, and games. Maybe not at the same rate it is now, but that's a small price to pay for every human having complete access to every existing game/movie/music recording/novel/textbook/scientific paper/etc. With the rapidly decreasing price of computer hardware and improving communication infrastructure I do mean *every* human. Poverty can be eliminated, and without intellectual monopoly everyone can have unimaginable intellectual wealth. Imagine a global filesharing network that gives everyone access to knowledge far exceeding their own personal Library of Congress. Everyone with access to a good private torrent tracker has already had a taste of how good it could be. There's already enough good entertainment out there to last your entire expected lifetime, and useful software and research will continue to be produced because of the productivity benefits. Complaining about slightly reduced production is distracting from the real issue of just how enormous the cost of all this artificial scarcity is.
Coal and nuclear are the only feasible options to meet current energy needs. Coal burning is already an environmental disaster, and produces more radioactive waste than nuclear. Even if we disregard the possibility of CO2 induced climate change coal is still totally unacceptable. Nuclear is the only sensible option.
The copying of the numbers is not theft, the use of those numbers to steal money is theft.
There's no reason to smoke anything now that vaporizers are easily available.
If the developers are less productive using the commercial IDE it's best value for money to leave it unused. It's a sunk cost, they wasted the money as soon as they bought it.
Stealing: I take the CD, the owner no longer has the CD.
Copying: I copy the data, now we both have the data.
Copying != theft. Copyright as originally intended "to promote the progress of science and useful arts" is arguably beneficial to society, but copyright as currently implemented mostly benefits the rich elite. With lower barriers to entry for both authorship and distribution the optimal copyright term is now shorter than the original term, but it has instead been increased to be effectively endless. It is no surprise people do not respect such an obviously broken law.
Then increase the text size. Higher resolution is always better, even on a small screen. With higher DPI we can abandon ugly hacks such as font hinting. I want a monitor with the resolution of paper. The poor interface scaling of Windows XP is holding back the market for high resolution monitors, but other OSs don't have this problem.
The only possible reason you could want more relevant spam is because you might buy spammed products. This encourages spammers and makes the internet a worse place for everybody.
The receptor spectral overlap is one reason why the ultimate visual interface can only be direct neural connection. Anyone who's tried psychedelic drugs will have seen colors that don't exist in reality, generated directly in the brain bypassing the eyes. I also suspect the human brain will adapt well to at least five channels of color, given the existence of tetrachromat humans, and even higher dimension color space perceiving animals. Humans only see a tiny portion of the electromagnetic spectrum, but most never consider it might be possible to improve this. I want my cybereyes.
But large fonts have fewer characters per line, so the annoying text jumping will be more common.
Just because 3d is often used as a gimmick doesn't mean it always has to be that way. It's perfectly acceptable to compose the scenes as though it were a normal movie, without all that objects flying into your face nonsense. The 3d effect will still work, and as it becomes more common people will expect a more subtle treatment. Color was a gimmick once, but now we don't expect every movie to be as colorful as The Wizard of Oz.
I can think faster than I can speak unambiguous commands. Using a combination of keyboard shortcuts, extended mouse buttons and mouse gestures I can browse fast enough that the bottleneck is almost always reading comprehension. This is also much less tiring than speaking. A better solution might be a combination of eye tracking and brainwave monitoring, but that's still far too unreliable.
With today's greatly improved distribution methods, the optimal length of copyright is much less than the original 14/14. Something like 5/5 seems reasonable, with the first 5 years free and a high cost for the extension.
The more ridiculous the so called "intellectual property" laws become, the faster the remaining traces of respect the average person has for them will erode. While there's a valid argument for a short copyright term being beneficial to society, 95 years will only encourage people to ignore the law altogether.